The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New Zealand in 2002.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given chart compares the popularity of different sports between girls and boys in New Zealand in 2002.

Overall, the most common sports for boys and girls were soccer and netball respectively. It is also noticeable that boys in general played more sports than girls.

10% of cricket players was boys, while the percentage of girls was only 1%. The proportion of boys and girls playing marital arts was 10% and 2.5% respectively. The gap between two genders is even bigger in soccer, which was 20%. The majority of players of basketball and tennis were also boys.

Turning to the remaining sectors, we can see that the most popular sports between girls were athletics, net ball and swimming. The figure for girls playing net ball was 25%, which is twenty-five times as many as the number of boys. Girls which chose swimming accounted for nearly 24% while boys only made up 12%. The number of girls took part in athletics was a little bit higher than that of boys, with the gap of about 2%.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 231, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s even bigger in soccer, which was 20%. The majority of players of basketball and t...
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Line 7, column 251, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to swim'.
Suggestion: to swim
...s the number of boys. Girls which chose swimming accounted for nearly 24% while boys onl...
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Line 7, column 363, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...r of girls took part in athletics was a little bit higher than that of boys, with the gap ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, while, in general

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 7.0 171% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 3.15609756098 190% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 33.7804878049 65% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 3.97073170732 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 827.0 965.302439024 86% => OK
No of words: 175.0 196.424390244 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72571428571 4.92477711251 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63713576256 3.73543355544 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31199180847 2.65546596893 87% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 106.607317073 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554285714286 0.547539520022 101% => OK
syllable_count: 227.7 283.868780488 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.36585365854 30% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.4926829268 67% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 19.050172989 43.030603864 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.1818181818 112.824112599 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.9090909091 22.9334400587 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.81818181818 5.23603664747 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 1.69756097561 177% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0995189981151 0.215688989381 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0455538280696 0.103423049105 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526758941793 0.0843802449381 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0892647884737 0.15604864568 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0631403142356 0.0819641961636 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.8 13.2329268293 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 81.63 61.2550243902 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 5.6 10.3012195122 54% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 11.4140731707 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.91 8.06136585366 86% => OK
difficult_words: 28.0 40.7170731707 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.4329268293 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.9970731707 73% => OK
text_standard: 6.0 11.0658536585 54% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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